Enhance Your Conversations Using Oratory Techniques!

It is said that the pen is mightier than the sword. It is, but the tongue is even mightier than the pen. Our tongues can bring crowds to laughter, to tears and often to their feet shouting appreciation. Orders have moved nations to war and lost souls to God. And what is their equipment, the same eyes, ears, hands, legs, arms and vocal cords that you and I have. Perhaps a professional athlete has a stronger body, where a professional singer is blessed with a more beautiful singing voice than the one we were given out. But the professional speaker starts out with the same equipment that we all have.

The difference is these individuals use it all. They use their hands, they use their bodies, and they use specific gestures with heavy impact. They think about the space they're talking in. They employ many different tones of voice, they invoke various expressions. They vary the speed with which they speak, and they make effective use of silence. If stirring words help you make your point, ponder the impact of powerful phrases. They've helped get politicians elected. The impacts of their words are vital not for the mere course of speech but for the entire course of generations. For example Abraham Lincoln expressed democracy as “of the people, by the people, and for the people”, and this is what served as one of the most appropriate definitions of democracy. These bulky sentences would have slipped in and out of the voters consciousness if political leadershadn’t expressed and conveyed them with phrases like powerful weapons.

These qualities can be adapted by using techniques like looking through books of similes to enrich our day to day conversations. Instead of saying happy as a sparrow, we can try happy as a lottery winner or happy as a baby with its first ice cream cone. Instead of saying bold as an eagle, try bold as the new marine or bold as Joan of Arc. Find phrases that have visual impact. Instead of clichés like as sure as death and taxes. Try as certain as big traffic in Delhi, or as sure as your shadow will follow you. Our listeners can’t see death or taxes, but they sure can see road traffic in metropolitan cities, or their shadow following them down the street. Try also to make the similes relate to the situation.

Whether you're standing behind the podium facing thousands, or behind the dinning table facing your family, you ought to move, amuse and motivate with the very same skills. Read speakers books to call quotations. Pull pearls of wisdom and get gems to tickle their funny bones. Find a few sayings to let casually slide off your tongue on chosen occasions. If you want to be notable, remember crazy quotes, make them rhyme, make them clever, or make them funny. Above all, make them relevant.